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The Christmas train (2002)
8.0/10on Open Library
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David Baldacci puts a journalist on a cross-country train bound for Los Angeles. The holiday journey keeps his fellow passengers close even after the weather starts deciding the itinerary. Ask which discoveries depend on people being stuck together, and which could have happened anywhere.
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The Christmas Appeal (2023)
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An amateur theater group’s holiday production leaves a trail of messages a reader can sort into evidence. Ask what your group believed because it was written in an official tone and what turned out to depend on knowing the history between two people.
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A Child's Christmas in Wales (1953)
8.7/10on Open Library
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Dylan Thomas retells childhood Christmases as if they happened in one snowfall, filling the brief account with relatives, jokes, and things he can hear from another room. Compare the details that feel like remembered facts with the ones the adult voice may have improved.
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Murder on the Christmas Express (2022)
7.0/10on Open Library
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A former investigator and a train full of strangers are stranded on a Christmas journey. Ask how the closed setting changes what it means to trust the person beside you. Flag the book’s treatment of abuse before picking it for a group.
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The Mistletoe Mystery (2024)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Molly is trying to make sense of holiday secrecy in a short return to the hotel and the people she knows. Ask how much a reader’s explanation depends on knowing the character already. A quick pick for a club that read The Maid.
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In a Holidaze (2020)
6.9/10on Open Library
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A Christmas stay in a cabin with family friends starts over, giving Mae multiple chances to act on what she wants. Ask which situation getting another chance actually helps and which still requires her to be honest with someone.
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Kiss Her Once for Me (2022)
10.0/10on Open Library
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A fake engagement brings Ellie into a Christmas gathering where she encounters a woman from a memorable night. Talk about why a story someone invents to protect herself becomes harder to maintain once other people have good reasons to believe it.
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Just Like Magic (2022)
9.0/10on Open Library
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A woman hoping to hide how far she has fallen unintentionally summons the spirit of Christmas. Ask which of her efforts to make the holiday more impressive is funniest and whether showing up honestly would have worked better with this particular family.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957)
8.2/10on Open Library
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Dr. Seuss gives the Grinch the impossible task of removing Christmas by taking all the objects he connects with it. Read the original picture book aloud and ask where the people of Who-ville get their confidence before the Grinch learns anything from hearing them.
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Make the Season Bright (2024)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Former fiancées unexpectedly land at the same family Christmas, with traditions that force them to spend time together. Ask which old memory each woman has been treating as settled and why coming back to it changes the conversation.
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You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince (2022)
8.0/10on Open Library
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A wealthy party planner is sent away from his usual comforts and ends up trying to organize a holiday event. Ask how the story separates having a talent for an event from wanting to decide how everybody else enjoys it.
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Twelve Dates of Christmas (2020)
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Kate signs up for a program of twelve blind dates just before Christmas. Discuss whether the dates are helping her make up her mind or distracting her from a decision she already knows how to make. Read this for a village rom-com that gives the group more than one relationship to talk about.
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The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas (Austin Family Chronicles #0.5) (1964)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Madeleine L’Engle’s brief Austin family story follows Vicky through the days before Christmas and her preparations for the pageant. For discussion, put the preparations alongside her worry about a new baby and ask what the family makes room for when its plans change.
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Krampus (2012)
7.3/10on Open Library
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A Yule demon comes back angry at Santa in a violent, illustrated fantasy set around a hard Christmas in West Virginia. Ask which character uses stories about the past to claim the right to rule the present. For a club comfortable with grisly horror.
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The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902)
8.5/10on Open Library
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Baum sends an orphaned child to live among immortals and gives Santa customs an entire fantasy history. Compare which familiar detail is most changed by seeing how he first discovered it, and which still feels arbitrary in a good way.
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A Christmas Story (1983)
8.5/10on Open Library
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A boy’s campaign for a particular Christmas present becomes an exercise in adults remembering how different their lives looked from a child’s height. Choose a book edition containing the stories that inspired the film, then ask which small humiliation has aged the funniest.
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Holidays on Ice (1997)
7.5/10on Open Library
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In the Macy’s essay, the narrator learns what it takes to work as an elf during shopping season. Give each reader a different essay to introduce, then compare which jokes are about bad behavior and which are about what holiday workers are asked to endure.
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Little Women (1848)
8.1/10on Open Library
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The March sisters begin with a Christmas they fear will be disappointing, then make a difficult choice about what to do with their breakfast. That scene can carry a full meeting by itself. Ask what the sisters gain from their gift, and whether each of them would answer the same way.
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The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
7.8/10on Open Library
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Poirot takes part in an English country-house Christmas while looking for a missing ruby. Choose an edition containing the title story. Ask whether the familiar rituals make it easier for a visitor to notice something out of place or easier to overlook it.
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The Mistletoe Murder (2016)
8.0/10on Open Library
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The title story revisits a wartime Christmas through a witness who has had years to decide how to tell it. Each reader can pick the story whose narrator gives them the most reason to reread a sentence.
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The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year (2024)
7.6/10on Open Library
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Two rivals end up at a Christmas party where a reclusive mystery writer disappears. Have half the group talk about the missing-host puzzle first and half about the romantic rivalry, then compare which scenes do both jobs.
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